Academies

Sheffield parents fight academy order as transparency rows reignited

DfE wants to transfer King Edward VII School to the Brigantia Learning Trust

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Tutoring

£114m tutoring cash clawed back from half of schools

Tutoring league tables show 1 in 4 schools used less than 50% of their catch-up cash, which will now…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

ASCL to ballot members for strike action

National ballot over pay, conditions and school funding will be the first in leadership union’s history

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Ofsted inspectors and senior DfE officials to ballot for strike action

FDA union announces first national strike ballot over pay in over 40 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Ofsted praises MAT’s ‘life-changing improvements’ after damning report

Northern Education Trust becomes first MAT for seven years to have a second Ofsted summary evaluation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Chartered College and Magic Breakfast scoop FEA awards

Fair Education Alliance awards provide support to start and scale-up solutions to ‘transform’ education

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Teacher strikes

Teacher strikes: How the ‘exemption’ to support exam pupils will work

NEU members will be given ‘dispensation’ to work on strike days to support year 11 and 13 pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Keegan: Ofsted ‘reviewing’ approach to safeguarding

‘Tragedy’ of Ruth Perry’s death raises ‘understandable’ questions about inspection practice, says education secretary

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

‘Sector-led’ attendance hubs to tackle school absence rates

Expansion of hubs programme follows a pilot which ‘achieved significant reductions’ in absence

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Governance

Diversity stats ‘not enough’ to boost school board representation

New government guidance ‘encourages’ schools to collect and publish governor and trustee diversity data

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

What’s actually new in Sunak’s maths to 18 (re)announcement?

The prime minister sets out new expert group, primary teacher NPQ and extended maths hubs in bid to tackle…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Sunak’s maths to 18 expert advisory group revealed

They include an architect of the national curriculum, a former Ofqual boss and the CEO of a credit card…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker